Karlskrona kommun
Karlskrona’s Folk High School inspires ‘Silver Age University’ in Chortkiv
With the aim of providing older people and individuals with special needs the opportunity to continue learning and developing throughout their lives, the Ukrainian municipality of Chortkiv, drawing inspiration from Litorina Folk High School in Karlskrona, has launched what they call the “Silver Age University”. In the long term, they also hope to offer war…
New partnership: Karlskrona and Saldanha Bay
We congratulate Saldanha Bay Local Municipality and Karlskrona Municipality on their newly established municipal partnership. The two municipalities will work on involving youth in democratic processes, with a focus on climate issues. The partnership is part of ICLD’s Climate network. -Through this project, we aim to involve the local youth community in local government strategies…
Karlskrona and Saldanha Bay, South Africa
Karlskrona and Saldanha Bay Municipality will together adress the problem of Limited capacity to include youth in decision-making processes. Particularily when it comes to climate adaption issues since these may disproportionately impact youth. The objectives in Saldanha bay are focused around inclusion of underrepresented groups, as well as political committment on this issue: The partners…
Karlskrona – Chortkiv
Democratic Resilience through Life long learning The partnership between Karlskrona and Chortkiv builds on a long-standing collaboration centred around Litorina Folk High School. It has evolved into a project focused on adult education for older citizens—a group heavily impacted by the war in Ukraine. In Chortkiv, the initiative plays a tangible role in improving health,…
Youth Policy (based on the LUPP Survey)
After a project concerning youth, culture and social conditions in our both municipalities we felt a need to develop our results and use a more scientific approach. We heard about the LUPP survey, a local follow-up of youth policy in municipalities. It is developed in Sweden by the Swedish National Board of Youth Affairs and…
The School Compass – Finalization of a municipal comparison
The aim is to create, try and evaluate a method for comparison in the purpose to ease understanding about leadership and operation control during partnership projects between different countries and also focus on the management results concerning structural quality, process quality and result quality. The focus is on education. We have translated and transformed a…
